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The cost of generating lines of code which look good has dropped 90%.... Take that as you will.

The majority of software engineers today, (mostly in big tech) are not interested in software engineering. They studied it to make money. This happened before LLMs. Add the fact th…

> I find it interesting how starkly bimodal attitudes toward employer loyalty are. It's because employers create a narrative which makes people think they are valued beyond the tra…

The article forgot to mention websockets add state to the server! Load balancing will require sticking sessions. At scale this tends to mean separating websocket servers completely…

What if they are providing negative value?

> this author play acts his way through the solution. I thought it was a nice bit of irony. At work there's so much play-acting but all in a serious tone.

I wonder if people had the same reaction when children started using calculators.

This is another way to determine if a company is a "start-up"! If you work at a company that has OKRs, it's no longer a start-up or it's time to bail because said start-up is about…

> The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error. Having lived in the EU (Netherlands) and the US …

There are a lot of big egos in team sports, and in high performing teams you often have a team full of big egos, although there are usually a few "team players". I wonder what coac…

Agreed, I think a lot of people do not appreciate the complexity of software systems. If we could prove software, we wouldn't have bugs. https://wiki.c2.com/?ProofsCantProveTheAbse…

Answering based on my own experience transferring to an E3 from E3D. You can apply for E3 from within US, but you will not be able to travel outside the US because you won’t get a …

> …it couldn't find product market fit. That's not something that's really on the developer Why is it not on the developer?

It would be nice to point out that: "PredictionHealth is currently not hiring in the following states: CA, MT, HI, or NY"

Yeah what’s the hesitation for having an API?

Yeah the progression feels like a textbook example of the iron law of bureaucracy [1] [1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

> software engineers are the worst at planning their own work. The vast majority will just go off and do wtf ever they want There are successful companies that have senior engineer…

Interesting, I’ve never heard of that interpretation. Heat pumps have always been a technology to me. The same tech that is in everyone’s refrigerator.

Yes modern day a/c is usually a heatpump. I’ve noticed a lot of people misunderstanding heat pumps, and thinking it’s some sort of replacement for A/C. Or that heat pumps are some …

Does anyone know if re-purposing large office buildings for farming is feasible? I've been thinking about this because of the possible down turn in commercial real-estate values.

> There are some parts of this planet where it it very hard to envision mass EV adoption. A lot of EV's are already at 500km range. Within this decade we should see 1000km range. A…

I would add a counter point to foreign key constraints, they make deletions and updates a lot more costly [1]. [1] https://shusson.info/post/postgres-experiments-deleting-tabl...